December Dreams Premier Auction: Western Americana, Mining, & Numismatics (December 2021)

Lot of 5 postcards including 3 different real photo cards. RPPC include: bird's-eye of Round Valley, just north of Adin (Adin cancel); Public Sc...

Lot of over 90 vintage postcards from the San Gabriel Valley town of Alhambra. Street scenes, residences, schools, churches. One of the residences is

A great grouping of thirty postcards of Altadena, California. There is a mixture of real photos and color cards. Images included are of various reside

Lot of 40+. Includes 31 RPPC, most white border. Views of Modoc High School, Hotel Modoc, court house, street scenes, lumber mill, NCO depot, and a fe

Lot of 3 postcards, two choice real photo and one chrome. Two RPPC include: one street view (mailed in 1912) and one birds-eye view mailed in 1911. Bo

Two nice real photos of Anderson. The first shows, "Rebekah Float, Anderson Floral Carnival, 1909". The second is a later date Eastman Pho...

Lot of 40 postcards. Includes 23 RPPC (mostly white border). Real photo views of Mark Twain's cabin, multiple street views, and other misc. Othe...

Lot of 12. Includes 3 white border RPPCs: two bird's-eye views and one of Main Street. Other printed cards (all divided back) include 5 bird'...

Lot of 9 postcards. Includes 6 real photo postcards. RPPC views of: The Oaks; Ryhners Villa; Pinewood; and others. Additional cards include two unused

Lot of 12 postcards, including 11 real photo. RPPC include 4 white border. Views of the Southern Pacific Depot, school house, Catholic church, IOOF ha

Forty nine postcards of Arcadia, California including hotels, homes and businesses in Arcadia. Many are color postcards but there are some choice real

Three cards are by Artvue and look to be earlier date (1930's) as one is stamped with the date 1938. The others look to be later date reproducti...

Lot of 49. Great collection! Includes 28 RPPC. Other cards are a mix of early printed cards (divided back) and modern cards. One undivided back. Real

Lot of 17 pieces for two famous hotels in Auburn. Includes 15 postcards, one Freeman's Hotel pictorial advertising cover, and an 1897 Freeman...

Lot of 19 cards. Miscellaneous group includes: pictorial Placer County Private Mailing Card; multiple Greetings and Christmas cards; 1899 card with ta

Lot of 32. Includes 27 RPPC. Eleven are white border. A whole variety of birds-eye views. The other 5 early printed cards include two undivided back.

Lot of almost 60 postcards of Auburn featuring buildings and misc. views. Includes 36 RPPC (8 white border). Choice views include a destroyed Annex Ho

Lot of 12 postcards, 9 real photo, showing street scenes and a few bird's-views of Auburn. Views include: choice photo card showing early auto s...

Lot of 8 East Auburn postcards including six real photo cards. RPPC views: four bird's-eye, 3 different (incl. 1905 mailed); and duplicate cards...

A nice grouping of twenty-three postcards of Azusa, California. The majority are real photo cards with five being in color. Six Rainbow Angling Club p

Rare group of photo postcards of Cold Brook Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles area. Some of these cards date to 1911. Most are posta

Lot of 25. Most are real photo. A nice Benbow collection with some duplicates. Views include: Hotel Benbow interior and exteriors; Benbow Bridge; Eel

Lot of 40. Includes 18 RPPC, 21 early printed (divided back), and 1 leather postcard (1907 Christmas). Views of school houses, churches, Carnegie Libr

Lot of 23. Plenty of RPCs. All Feather River Inn. Camp along the boardwalk, inside view, gold course, outside view, etc. One very nice hand colored wi

Extremely Rare! For Gold Lake Beach Camp. This is completely gone now! Elevation 6,000 feet. The Beauty Spot of the High Sierra. $20 to $22.50 a week

Four postcards: Del Norte Chalet, Teacher River Camp, Riverside Hotel, Mohawk Tavern. Three Advertising promo Cards: Mohawk Tavern, Feather River Park

Lot of 35. 20 RPCs. Great RPC of horses traveling on horseshoes. Includes bridges, fishing, las Plumas Power Station, Big Bar, CWP Speedwell Trucks, w

Rare RPPC showing people watching a building engulfed in flames. Photo by Seely Bros., Arcata, Cal. Labelled "Blue Lake Fire Dec. 5th 1911.&quo...

Lot of 6. 1) Four postcards. All Frasher. All RPCs: a) View of town and mines. "The Historic Old Mining Town of Bodie, Mono County, Calif."...

Lot of 50. A great collection with early historical views of the springs and hotel. Includes 16 real photo postcards with a few shot in the studio at

Lot of 16 postcards of the baths at the historic Boyes Hot Springs resort in Sonoma County. Includes 10 real photo postcards, one of which has been pa

Lot of 6 postcards of carnivals and gatherings at the historic Sonoma County resort. Includes 2 real photo and 4 printed photo cards. RPPCs include: H

Lot of 25 postcards of Boyes, CA and the Sonoma Mission Inn (the later hotel at Boyes Hot Springs). Includes 20 real photo postcards: three town views

Lot of 19. Includes 6 RPPC: Pioneer's Cabin, General Sherman Tree, and Big Trees Hotel. Other cards are printed cards (divided back) with views ...

A couple of these postcards are real photo cards and three are amber views. The rest are color cards. These are all rare. How often do you come across

Thirty-nine postcards prominently feature the Calistoga Old Mill in Napa County, California. Contains four nice real photo cards of the Old Bale Mill

Thirty-nine vintage postcards of the Calistoga Petrified Wood Forest near Calistoga, California. Includes ten postcards of Old Faithful Geyser of Cali

Twenty-two postcards of Calistoga Hot Springs in Calistoga, California. Contains entrance photo postcards with a sign stating "Calistoga Hot Sp...

Fifteen street scenes and five birds-eye view postcards in Calistoga. Most of the street scenes are of different views and angles on Lincoln Avenue. A

Nice collection of birds-eye views of Calistoga. Includes a few real photo cards. Some early date cards from 1907 and 1908. One shows a geyser and a c

A nice grouping of twenty Camp Baldy postcards. Many real photo images of the beautiful forested area, the lake, and falls. A real photo card of The H

Lot of 38. Twenty-six are blue/green tinted, mostly published Polychrome Co. in SF. Also 12 amber tone cards from Polychrome. Mostly used c.1908-13. V

Lot of 20 historic chromo litho postcards of Camp Meeker, a historic logging and tourism community in Sonoma County. Most are colorized. Includes view

Lot of 20 real photo postcards of this historic location in the redwoods of Sonoma County. Views include: ox team on trail; Lych Gate; chapel at St. D

Lot of 20 amber postcards of Camp Meeker in Sonoma County. FH believes the amber postcard series to be a creation of master postcard publisher Ed. Mit

Lot of eight Private Mailing Cards and a store card of The Catalina Canvas City. Two postmarked: 1904, 1905. Date: Country (if not USA): State:

Lot of ~75 postcards. Includes 40 RPPC. RPPC include: several birds-eye view, as well as shots of the railroad station, Elim Grove Hotel, Log Cabin Re

Lot of 14 real photo postcards with a "frame" design around the photo. Most identify the photographer as Pelton. Views of: Austin Creek, H...

Lot of 5 different real photo postcards. 1) Three cards by Matthews: residence of LN Pabst, elk mount, and Surprise Valley sagebrush. All mailed, 1909

Lot of 16. Premier piece is close-up of a Cornforth truck parked in front of Cornforth Grocery at Broadway and 2nd street. Employees seem to be enjoyi